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セルフ・トーキング 或いは 魔女というガラクタによる魂の在り処への言及のバラード

Requested by Quwanti. The title is long enough as it is in Japanese, so I’ll translate it here instead of the usual title spot. It does give a small clue as to what’s going on in the song, though. “Self talking, or perhaps, a ballad by trash known as a witch alluding to the whereabouts of her soul”

If there’s a doujinshi to go along with this, like there is for the Tshirt Cat n_tegral songs, then I wish I could read it to get some good context.

Notes: A lot of these words have double meanings (by which I mean the singer sings something different from what’s written), so I tried to accommodate that by combining words, sort of. In one instance, world is sung and illusion is written, so I wrote illusionary world. Same thing for heart and mirror, but the best adjective for heart was cardiac. It sounds somewhat bad, but I can’t think of any better way. Sometimes, “you” is sung as “me,” and vice versa, so I simply wrote that as “our.” On another note, “to be or not to be” is a very loose translation of its line, I will admit, but I find it very fitting and overall conveys the same meaning.

The whereabouts of the soul of someone like me Such a thing doesn’t exist, I know, but even so, if we’re to be born and to be erased without purpose, fulfill our minimal wishes for rebellion Please, for us

2 thoughts on “セルフ・トーキング 或いは 魔女というガラクタによる魂の在り処への言及のバラード”

Thanks for the translation ! You make a good work, like always ! You know, this sort of song is always a pain to translate, personnally (I know it), but I really love all the efforts your put on it. Even if there are some stanzas that you don’t translate exactly, I prefer to have a translation with sens than a litteral translation, just like you do. So, you make a good work ! By the way I don’t find this CD of RD-Sounds in the website. It’s a little CD of a special event ? I don’t see it in the website…